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High atop a hill in the tiny town of Lacoste, overlooking the Luberon Valley in the south of France, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has restored 33 precious stone buildings dating from the 16th to the 18th...

Known for the smoldering intensity of his figurative work, Samorì deftly wields his artist's brush to create moody and atmospheric pieces. The following interview sheds light on the prolific artist who spends most of ...

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a pioneer of photography in Russia and a pioneer of color photography. He was given the task of capturing the old Russia in images, on behalf of Czar Nicolas II in 1909.

An upcoming auction of vintage space artifacts will include an original Apollo 14 mixtape. Yes, the actual jams grooved to by astronauts in outer space...

The man and woman accused of selling a stolen Henri Matisse painting on Miami's black market have pled guilty. Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman of Miami...

The New York City Opera has recently announced the six selections that will appear in this year's VOX Festival in New York, a workshop program...

For too long there has been a large divide (whether real or imagined) between visual art and music. After all, what we've come to call...

The December issue of Vanity Fair features an exciting find--an unpublished story by Truman Capote. Titled "Yachts and Things," the six-page tale was uncovered in...

Conny is a German mother of three adult children. Since we met, she has learned quite a bit about the American political system. Of course, it's different from her country's, not just in its structure, but also regarding...

The Halloween festivities may have come to a close, but there's still more seasonal festivities to celebrate. No, it's not time to break out the...

Humor, humility and honesty all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy. In speaking at Our Class, Polish Ambassador to the United States Ryszard Schnepf understands that humility can be more effective t...

The Day of the Dead is a great day to remember one of the great artists who most heavily influenced the way Mexico portrays...

Remember back in 2008 when Vampire Weekend was the biggest band ever, but then everybody predicted it wouldn't last because of internet backlash and whatnot?...

LOS ANGELES -- In Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" opening Friday, the title character is the bad guy from a fictional 1980s video game. Despite faithfully doing...

"I couldn't believe that in the 1950s, here was a woman who was calling attention not only to the fact there were gay people, but...

Whether it's playing a sister wife on "Big Love" or taking on the comedy world in "Louie," Chloe Sevigny takes on controversial roles both in...

A funny thing has happened in recent years. With the U.S. in a recession, the question is whether changing tides will see more cultural influence emanating from the East. In many ways, Hong Kong has epitomizes the change...

The popularity of the mustache has waxed (ahem) and waned over the last 100 years. The 'stache is definitely back in 2012, though it is not quite as widespread a follicular expression as in Victorian times.

Thank you, Twittersphere, for showing us the best art-related Halloween costumes this year:...

There's been a lot to celebrate this October. Halloween, more than one stretch of Indian summer, the best-looking group of baseball boys declaring victory in...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man and woman have pleaded guilty to charges of trying to sell a stolen painting by French master Henri Matisse worth $3 million nearly 10 years after it went missing from a Venezuelan museum, authori...

Passing by someone performing in the subway, a common critique might be, "Wow, that person is pretty good," but would you ever go beyond dropping a tip in the hat?